Ghana’s
president -elect Nana Akufo-Addo has warned that African leaders who reject
democracy are “fighting the tide of history”.
The president
elect praised the democratic gains made in Ivory Coast and Nigeria but
expressed concern over the situation in The Gambia.
“What is taking
place in the Gambia is unfortunate, I don’t have access to the full details of
what is happening but in the little that I have read and the snippets suggest
that somehow some confusion is about to emerge, and the rest of us in the
region have an obligation to try and find a way to get a handle on the
situation and restore normalcy there. I believe that those who are going
against the idea of competitive politics, electoral politics, are fighting the
tide of history in West Africa and in the general African region’‘, he said.
Akufo-Addo won
the election on a wave of anger over corruption, an ailing economy and soaring
debt.
Chief among his
many campaign promises was to fix the economy, create jobs and opportunities
and work to strengthen the local currency, the cedi.
“The measures
that we want to take to stimulate enterprise growth in our country and get Ghana
working again, making things here in Ghana. We want to bring a shift in the
paradigm in the way we look at problems.
We’re going to do so in a difficult situation, there is hanging national debt of considerable proportions, but if we succeed from the get-go in getting these measures to go and we see the beginnings of growth in the economy that is also the best way we can deal with the issue of our debt”.
In his victory
speech, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo pledged to put Ghana “back on the path of
progress and prosperity.
-Africanews
AEP
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